Four little children, the oldest just eight years old, were murdered by their father Friday morning in Louisville. The family members were Somali refugees who had been resettled in a housing complex where other Somalis lived.

The father, Said Biyad, turned himself in at the police station, saying that he had killed his family.

The family was known as “secondary refugees” because they originally settled in another city before coming to Louisville. Kentucky Refugee Ministries and Catholic Charities have helped settle hundreds of Bantu refugees directly to Louisville from foreign refugee camps in 2003.

Bantus and other Somalis have fled that nation’s long-running civil war.

Dozens of neighbors, as well as Somalis from throughout the city, clustered near the crime scene during the morning and early afternoon as police continued to investigate.

A worker from Catholic Charities was on the crime scene of the killings to help interpret.
[Children's bodies removed at Iroquois Homes, Louisville Courier-Journal 10/6/06]

Below is a photo of the local Somalis looking on to the crime scene.

Somalis are among the most “diverse” people that America has ever tried to include in the national community. It hardly seems kind to import tribal persons who require instruction on the operation of doorknobs and electric lamps, but such neediness keeps many in the Refugee Industrial Complex gainfully employed. (See Cliff Notes Assimilation for Somalis.)

How much do cultural issues matter in crimes like this? Certainly we have plenty of Americans who commit monstrous crimes, such as the awful murder of the Amish children. But when the normal stresses of living are multiplied by being placed into a society that might as well be Mars to an African tribesman, it may seem impossible to imagine a solution to one’s problems.

Perhaps Said Biyad would have murdered his family if they had remained in Africa. Or maybe not.

In another sign of demographic warfare (and the election season), a rather ordinary statement from Gov. Schwarzenegger encouraging assimilation has caused an explosion of vitriol from the Hispanics who run Sacramento.

Here are the remarks that got their sombreros in a bunch…

Recalling his own experience emigrating from his native Austria, the Republican governor said immigrants should learn English and U.S. history and “make an effort to become part of America.”

“That is very difficult for some people to do especially, I think, for Mexicans because they are so close to their country here so they try to stay Mexican but try to be in America, so there’s this kind of back and forth,” he said.

“What I’m saying to the Mexicans is you’ve got to go and immerse yourself and assimilate into the American culture, become part of the American fabric. That is how Americans will embrace you,” he added.
[Governor urges immigrants to assimilate into U.S. culture, AP 10/05/06]

Art “Last Gasp” Torres couldn’t let that pass.

The Chairman of the California Democrat Party also weighed in. Art Torres said, “Governor Schwarzenegger has once again shown how out of touch he is with Californians. His comments were a calculated political insult to all immigrants.”
[Latinos Blast Schwarzenegger Over "Staying Mexican" Comment, News10 10/05/06]

In fact, it is Torres who is out of touch. Despite the rapid influx of millions of Hispanics into the state, the majority of voters still support the rule of law regarding immigration: around two-thirds disapprove of driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, for example.

Citizens still believe in the melting pot, despite the abdication of the elites into globalism. A wake-up moment for many was the sight of a sea of Mexican flags in American streets last spring, as hundreds of thousands of lawless foreigners demanded US rights.

Incidentally, the Gov. is now paddling to the right after insulting pro-sovereignty voters in July by repudiating his support for Prop 187. Arnold can afford to refrain from kissing up to Mexicans, since the Democrat gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides is down by 17 points in recent polling.

So it goes in Mexifornia politics, 2006.